The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-05-12

the office Of the sovereign with that Of the
prime minister.
A disaster occurred at the southwest
point OF Channel harbor, st. Johns. The
Glasgow steamship John Knox, laden
with liquors, bricks and rolling-stock,
struck the reefs near Channel harbor and
sank in half an hour. Every one on board
persisted.
The storekeeper OF the warehouses known,
as Almacenes de Depositeurs at HAVANA,
has disappeared, andis said tobe o $4OO,-'
600 deiaulter.
At London the royal commission on ar.
terial drainage has recommended the ex-
penditure by thegovernmento OF 81, 1875, 900
in improving the river Shannon, $375, 900
in improving the Barrow and 500, 600 in
improving the Bann.s
The largest gas well in the world has just
been discovered at Fairmont, Ind. 1t is
flowing nearly IL, 600, 900 feet per day.
William j. Florence will erect q costly
residence upon his $15, 600 site in Wash
ington.
The comptroller OF the currency desig.
mated Chicago as q central reserve city UNI
der the recent act oil congress.
Lieut.. Wilcox. accused OF duplicating
pay accounts, and abandoning his post oil
martial at Fort Smelling, Capt. s. n.
Groesbeck acting as advocate general. The
accused entered a plea OF guilty. The trial
was continued a day to hear the defense,
which will consist mainly OF the previous
good character OF Lieut.. Wilcox.
A gentleman who has been in Washing
ton for some days says that he is certain
that Col. Colville OF Red Wing will be APP
pointed register to succeed Marble, and
that either c. p. Maginnis OF Morris or r.
H. Rahilly OF Lake City will fill SwaEs-
trom's place in the Duluth land office. eOo!-
vile has been Endorsed by Mcdonald, Will
son md Rice. and Mcdonald and Rice have
Endorsed Maginnis also for receiver. Rahil-
ly was backed by Kelly and Doran for
some other place, and is travelling on these
credentials. Au
Another new bank has been added to
st. Paul. Hon. Albert Scheffer, for many
years with the Bank OF Minnesota, il pres
iient OF the new bank which is to be known
as the Commercial National Bank OF st.
Paul, and which has capital stock OF
$500, 900. The location is at the corner
OF Fourth and Jackson. o
| General Passenger Agent Fee. OF the
Northern Pacific, has returned to st. Paul
from his trip to the coast. He made the
trip over the Cascade division to Tacoma,
uncompleted switchback on the western
s idle of the mountains. He says that part
of the road is one Of the best pieces ever
turned over to the operating department
by the engineering department OF the
Northern Pacific.
Hon. Gilbert McMicken, just returned to
Winnepeg from Ottawa, saysh learnedt there
! fro m Sir J ohm Macdo nald that he (Sir John)
was to be raised to the peerage on June 81.
He will be given a seat in the house oflords,
| and will retire permanently from Canadian
| politics. Sir Charles Topper, dominion
| finance minister, is to succeed him as lead
er OF the Conservative party. The state.
| ment is also made public that Sir John
| Rose ofLondon, formerly a Canadian cab
4 met minister, issto beraised the peerage al.
| SO. 81 81
At Grand Rapids, Mich. the wife ol
Charles Martin, a young farmer, gave rat
poison to her children and took adose
herself. The woman and elder child are
dead. The other child will recover. Mrs
Martin had lived unhappily with her hus;
band.
| The Vermont Central Railway company
| find that they will have to pay about ST.
| 100000 on account OF the Forest Hills
| bridge disaster in March.
| In Cincinnati the new $500, 900 court
house. built to replace the one DESTROYED
| by mob three years ago, is already. in
process ofdisintegration through the fraud
ulent and grossly imperfect work OF con
| tractors.
| Among the letters received by the in
terstate commission was one from II. G.
| Moore who runs big wooden toothpicE
factory at Fond du Lac, Wis. He com
plains that for Eastern factories wooC
| toothpicks are rated as from third to fifth
class freight, while if he desires toship wes
he has to ship by way OF Chicago, and hi
/ product is rated first class. He prays fo
relief. G. W. Neff, editor of the Crysta
Lake (Minn.,) Union writes to ask if it j
really true that editors must give up thei
passes. He complains that the Omaha
has called in his annual. st&&
The sixth atte mpt in six months wa
made to burn the office OF the New 4orl
Zeitung. The incendiary has not been dis
covered.
Frank Tully, formerly Q prosper GU
business man OF Rochester, N. T., was ar
rested in New York on charge OF forger.
preferred by George Leaf, his father in-law
The prisoner, it is claimed, squanderet
4 1000, ruined his father and himself
committed dozen forgeries or more, de
serted his wife and three children and as
ISOLATED with fast women.
Senator Cullom OF ILL.,, in letter to
friend in Washington, says he thinks tn
interstate commerce law will work its wa,
out all right. He does not apprehend
collapse for it. In the first place, the la,
as it passed was not just as he desired il
but it was the best that could be done
, He foresaw that it's defects would becom
apparent as soon as it was put in opera
ton, and this would lead to their corret
ton; by the time congress meets it will b
, we'll understood what corrections are need
. ed and they will be made. He expects th
,, bill ultimately to affect all the good ii
friends desired and looked for from it.
At Helena. Mont, the other day som
twenty commercial travellers formed q cor
federation, Clipped in SO each. and the
selected one OF their number, j. E. Rhodes
proceeded to arrest him for infringement {
the drummers' tax. The case came to tr
: AL lasted five days, and was finally decit
ed in favor OF the drummer, the judge hole
ing that the recent decision OF the Unite
, States supreme court settled the questio
conelusively.
Il At a joint meeting OF coke workers an
! Knights Of Labor at Everson, Pa, it we
dsc.ced to Immediately stop work unit
the demand for an advance is granite,
, The strike will extend to all the works
Connelsville region. About $4,000 me
will be affected. sa
At Dixon, H., Henry p. Berker, one
Dixon's most prominent citizens, died ,
paralysis. He was for years the leadii
+ representative OF the milling interestss an
had held offices under the city gover
: ment.
The Catholic University OF America h,
: been incorporated, the certificate
! incorporation being fled at the city hal
: The university is established ITO teal
: philosophy, theology, natural scienc
. mathemntics,s history. belles-lettres, a
Gent and modern languages law and mic
Z cine.,' e: 5a 49,
i North Dakota board Of agriculture HI
: decided the location Of The first fair in
4 vor OF Grand Forks, accepting the guara
tee Of sc. 600 offered by that city.
81 Acting for Bishop Welles, oi Wis, wi
& IS still in Florida. cooperating shi8 hedlt
q Bishop Brown, ii the dioccstof Fend I
: Lac, has pronounced sentence 81 depo
!. ton from the ministry upon Rev. w.
) Walker, late rector OF st. Matthias chur
i at WAnkesha, Wis. Mr.. Walkers often
consisted in going to Milwankee q 4
weeks ago and INDUCING in spree.
=, Burton, Fla, Special: ThomassA.S n
/. SON and party Of eight friends had